[wind.alert] January Wind.Alert from Windpower Monthly
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A SELECTION OF NEWS HEADLINES FROM OUR TOP STORIES
* Bidders call for postponement of French 500 MW tender saying
deadline impossible to meet
* Spain's Gamesa braces for next growth spurt overseas with year
of consolidation
* Trials at UK offshore wind station reveal minimal navigation
and safety risk to ships
* Uncertainty in Brazil paralyses progress on 1100 MW wind
tender as financing becomes problematic
* New investor aiming to put financial legs on North American
wind projects starts big in Quebec
* Wind steals the show at huge PowerGen event in Florida
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FOCUS COLUMN -- ONLINE-ONLY
* Wind power economics -- goodbye gas and hello coal
Any power company planning to add gas-fired generation to its
portfolio will by now have discovered that wind can be the far
cheaper option. Yet it was only two short years ago in the
electricity price stakes that gas-fired generation was so far
ahead of wind that it looked like an unbeatable winner. This
year, however, Windpower Monthly's annual comparison of
power generation costs has a brand new focus. All of a sudden...
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OPINION COLUMN -- FROM THE MAGAZINE
* Money talks
If wind is to remain an independent sector with its own identity,
the brawn of the big power companies moving in as wind plant
owners must be balanced by large scale private ownership.
Without that balance, wind will lost its voice on the all
important energy political battleground. Fortunately, large scale
private equity is being pulled into wind by the opportunity to
make big money. Making that possible is the ...
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BONUS THIS MONTH: The Windicator -- quarterly update of wind
market indicators
In the January issue of Windpower Monthly: data and comm
commentary on the wind sector's share price performance,
renewable energy certificate trading, and wind power
development, including country-by-country megawatt
additions since the start of the year. Does it look as if 2004
will be as bad a year for new wind plant development as
many had feared? Find out in The Windicator. Follow, too,
the ups and downs of the Windpower Monthly Equity Index
and compare how an investment in wind has performed
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subscriber service updated every three months in the
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